Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI) is a unique, self-funded, 35-year-old business within the Arizona Department of Corrections and employs nearly 2,000 inmates. These inmates gain skills to help secure employment upon their release — many in highly skilled trades. The wages inmates earn go toward savings for their release, room and board offsets, and restitution funds.
Each year, millions of dollars in "profits" generated from sales of ACI products and services go directly to Arizona's General Fund (helping to keep state taxes low). Taxpayers also benefit from inmate wage deductions that support Court Ordered Restitution, Victim's Compensation Fund, and more. Inmates who participate in ACI programs are less likely to reoffend, saving taxpayers in future court and incarceration costs.
Begun as a program to help rehabilitate prisoners, ACI today is a vibrant business providing a wide variety of innovative products and services to public and private businesses while helping inmates learn the needed job skills to lead productive lives.
ACI creates high-quality products at our facilities throughout Arizona, offering standard and custom-designed products for business, institutional, and home use. We have state-of-the-art facilities, which include: ACI Print Shop, ACI Wood Shop, ACI Metal Shop, ACI Vehicle Wrap.
- We can build new or refurbish your existing furnishings.
- Need seasonal or supplemental employees? ACI can provide reliable and trainable labor forces (any size).
- Get custom-made signs, nameplates, plaques, awards, promotional items, vehicle graphics, metalwork, etc. Call with your custom idea!
- Our printing operation creates eye-catching invitations, product brochures, multipage forms, etc.
Please visit https://aci.az.gov/capabilities/ for a full list of our capabilities (services and products).
Please visit https://aci.az.gov/labor-partnerships/ for a full list of our Arizona business partnerships.